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They Fought Like Demons : Women Soldiers in the American Civil War /
Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional picture does not tell t...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2002.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: ""ENTRENCHED IN SECRECY"": Women Soldiers of the Civil War; 1 ""THEY FOUGHT LIKE DEMONS"": A Military History of Women in Combat; 2 ""TO DRESS AND GO AS A SOLDIER"": Means and Motivations; 3 ""A FINE LOOKING SOLDIER"": Life in the Ranks; 4 ""FAIRLY EARNED HER EPAULETTES"": Women Soldiers in the Military Service; 5 ""WHY THEY DETAINED HER I CAN''T IMAGINE"": The Prisoner of War Experience; 6 ""I WOULD RATHER HAVE BEEN SHOT DEAD"": Women Soldiers as Casualties of War; 7 ""A CONGENITAL PECULIARITY"": Women Discovered in the Ranks.
- 8 ""ROMANTIC YOUNG LADIES"": Female Soldiers in the Public Consciousness9 WHEN JENNIE CAME MARCHING HOME: Women Soldiers in the Postwar Years; 10 BEYOND HEROES OR HARLOTS: The Changing Historical Perspective; CONCLUSION: ""I LOVE MY COUNTRY"": A Summation of Women''s Military Service; Appendix: The Female Warrior Bold; Bibliography; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.